From: richard.stephens@converteam.com
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Date with three-letter month
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:15:05 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <OF507A9CCD.8ADF4D68-ON80257435.00489734-80257435.0048CDCD@converteam.com> (raw)
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>> I have consulted the manuals and even the source (core-con.tex) but I
>> cannot find a way of getting a three-letter month using the \date
command.
>> For example, I would like to display today's date as 23-Apr-08. This
>> gives a short display suitable for use in a margin, but avoids the
>> confusion of American (04-23-08) vs English (23-04-08) ordering when
using
>> numbers.
>> Can anyone help?
>
>These are available (sort of)
>
> \currentdate[day,--,{\monthshort\normalmonth},--,year] % lowercase
>
>or
>
> \currentdate[day,--,{\MONTHSHORT\normalmonth},--,year] % uppercase
>
>Best wishes,
>Taco
Thanks Taco. This does the job. All I need now is a version (\Monthshort
??) which puts the first
letter in uppercase, Jan , Feb, etc.
Thanks,
Richard
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next reply other threads:[~2008-04-24 13:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-24 13:15 richard.stephens [this message]
2008-04-24 14:04 ` Aditya Mahajan
2008-04-24 17:45 ` Peter Münster
2008-04-24 18:36 ` Hans Hagen
2008-04-24 18:53 ` Peter Münster
2008-04-24 19:21 ` Arthur Reutenauer
2008-04-24 19:55 ` Taco Hoekwater
2008-04-24 20:22 ` Hans Hagen
2008-04-24 21:00 ` Arthur Reutenauer
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-04-25 9:11 richard.stephens
2008-04-24 15:38 richard.stephens
2008-04-23 15:03 richard.stephens
2008-04-23 16:10 ` Taco Hoekwater
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